Keywords: Maine Infantry, 17th Regiment (1861-1865)
Item 61513
Josiah Remick, 17th Maine, ca. 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Saco Media: Carte de visite
Item 81845
17th Maine Regiment Flag Fragment, ca. 1863
Contributed by: Maine Irish Heritage Center Date: 1861–1865 Location: Portland Media: Ink on Paper on cloth
Exhibit
The Sanitary Commission: Meeting Needs of Soldiers, Families
The Sanitary Commission, formed soon after the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, dealt with the health, relief needs, and morale of soldiers and their families. The Maine Agency helped families and soldiers with everything from furloughs to getting new socks.
Exhibit
From Fredericksburg to Appomattox, from August 1862 to June 1865, the 17th Maine Infantry Regiment's raw, untrained and undisciplined recruits soon learned to be soldiers. The 17th Maine was known as the Red Diamond Regiment.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War
"He enlisted from Strong in Company G, 17th Maine Infantry, on August 18, 1862. Thomas was taken prisoner at Chancellorsville, Virginia, on May 3…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Resources
"… Oxford University Press, 1995 Civil War Regiments from Maine, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin, Federal Publishing Company, 1908, reprint 2003…"
